Start of Production!

I officially started the production process of my film opening! I have decided to make some slight changes in my schedule, changing the production process to 1 week, and the editing process to 2 weeks because I have found that a lot of the work is going to come from the editing process.

The things that we have done so far were to measure the lengths of each scene, see the lighting techniques, see how the exposure needs to be handled, etc. I started by getting a lamp to highlight one specific portion of the desk I will film in. The first lamp turned out to be too bright, and I felt like the white light was too much. So we grabbed a different lamp which was softer but still clear, and the lighting is also yellowish and orange. This made the shot feel creepier. The phone we were using to film started to make the practice shots too bright, so we lowered the exposure all the way, which ended up having a cool effect as seen below. We also placed random objects in the frame to see if the objects were clear or not.

This shot turned out very nicely and how I pictured it. As I said before, these were just practice shots to see how everything was going to look and how we needed to arrange the equipment for the production. These clips looked very well made without having a filter on or anything, which made me feel good about the editing, which will just make the shots look even creepier and cooler. We decided to film from all different angles to see what the shots would look like. Another thing we did was try out different motions to see which one looked the best and most realistic out of all of the movements.

Another thing that we did was put some of the clips into the app Videoshop which had really cool filters to add an even more dramatic/creepy effect to our video. The app had many filters changing the color to make the scenes darker, adding noise effects to the scenes, adding glitches to the scenes, etc. Some of the effects that we really liked were called Darko and Delta, which both were monotone and made the colors less pronounced and more black and white. However, it still had a hint of the original color.

The production started off well. The practice shots help me get a better idea of what we need for the official shots and help us have more common knowledge about what we need to do in the video as well. Stay tuned to see our progress during the production process!